Kyle Noke drops to welterweight, meets Charlie Brenneman at UFC 151

After a two-fight skid at middleweight, Kyle Noke will drop to welterweight for his next bout.

Noke (19-6-1 MMA, 3-2 UFC) on Tuesday announced on his Facebook page that he is dropping to 170 and will meet Charlie Brenneman (15-4 MMA, 4-3 UFC) at UFC 151 in Las Vegas. Additional sources close to the fight confirmed the booking to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).

UFC 151 takes place Sept. 1 at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. The event’s main card airs live on pay-per-view while FX and Facebook host preliminary-card fights.

Noke has not won since a February 2011 first-round “Submission of the Night” victory over Chris Camozzi at UFC 127 in his home country of Australia. That win gave him three straight to start his UFC career, all by stoppage.

But since then, the product of Season 11 of “The Ultimate Fighter” has suffered a first-round heel hook submission loss to Ed Herman at UFC on Versus 5 in August 2011, and in March he returned to Sydney, but dropped a unanimous decision to the UFC debuting Andrew Craig at UFC on FX 2.

Brenneman will be looking to get back in the win column after a June first-round submission loss to Erick Silva at UFC on FX 3, a rear-naked choke that got Silva a “Submission of the Night” award. “The Spaniard,” who trains at AMA Fight Club in New Jersey, has alternated wins and losses starting with an upset of Rick Story at UFC on Versus 4 in June 2011.

Anthony Johnson beat him with a first-round head-kick knockout at UFC on Versus 6 this past October. But he rebounded from that setback to outpoint Daniel Roberts at UFC on FX 1 in January before the loss to Silva.

UFC 151 features a main event light heavyweight title fight between champion Jon Jones and former Strikeforce champion Dan Henderson. It is not yet known where the Noke-Brenneman fight will fall on the card, though it is likely to be part of the night’s prelims.

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